Day 16 – Wednesday 4 August 2021 – 107km

Back to Berry Springs this morning for a swim, the car park was nowhere near as full as yesterday, but we arrived there before 10am.  Plenty of parking spots. We spent a couple of hours in the lower pool, it is very large and a beautiful scene. The pool is not crowded at all & we chat to a few different people about travel experiences and we get some good advice on places to see & things to do in Darwin. My legs get nibbled on a few times by some small fish in the pool. There are lots of archer fish and smaller sooty grunter swimming around. We have nice homemade sandwiches for lunch as we dry off a bit before wandering off to explore the other pools. The springs have a nice cascade into the top pool, it is very pretty there as well

Back to our van to change into dry clothes then into Stokes Hill Wharf in Darwin city. We easily find a park on the wharf & parking is free. We walk along to the Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum and explore it for a couple of hours. The museum is very informative and entertaining and we both enjoy the experience. We finish in the museum at 5pm, right on closing time and wander on further along the wharf to the food places.  We run into some travellers we met in the pool at Mataranka & chat to them for a while before ordering barramundi & prawns for dinner, washed down with a nice ale.

We watch the sun set over Darwin harbour then head back to the van, neither of us cooked dinner so it tops an even more a great day.